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This week, I spoke with Chris Shattuck (chrisshattuck), who has been part of the Drupal community for 10 years, and has attended 7 DrupalCons.
We're looking forward to our community keynote in Vienna, and here's why.
Joe Shindelar is a developer, artist, and snowboarding enthusiast who has been building Drupal sites and participating in Drupal core development since 2006. Joe is also very active in the Drupal issue queues where he has helped to develop and improve Drupal's image handling and manipulation features, contextual links, and various other bits and pieces.
Oh! Hey there, my name is Piyush Jain and as a new staff member at the Drupal Association I wanted to learn what the community likes so much about DrupalCon.
This week, I spoke with Eduardo Garcia (-enzo-), a Drupal Console core maintainer. Eduardo has been part of the Drupal community for 9.5 years, and has attended 6 DrupalCons.
One of the most exciting aspects of preparing for a DrupalCon is selecting its sessions. It’s always incredibly impressive and humbling to see the great ideas that our community comes up with—and they’re all so good that making the official selections is definitely not an easy process!
This time, the Track Chairs had over 500 sessions to evaluate, and only 108 hours worth of time to select. With the addition of the 25-minute talk option, we were able to accept 132 sessions to fill our programming time.
DrupalCon North America and Europe are the the biggest Drupal event in the world. Like any other events this size DrupalCon impacts the environment. Which is where, I guess, we should throw in the word sustainability.
At the Drupal Association, we strive to make DrupalCon a sustainable event in every sense and that includes reducing our impact on the environment. Here are some facts from the previous DrupalCon in North America that might interest you:
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DrupalCon Baltimore was attended by close to 3300 people.